Assistant Professor, Program Director, Catholic Studies
Dr. Elizabeth M. Pyne is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies who specializes in contemporary Christian theologies. She is also the Director of the William C. Sennett Institute for Mercy and Catholic Studies at 老司机福利社.听
Her research and teaching focus on how traditions of faith intersect with questions of social and ecological justice. She has published several articles and book chapters on the work of Edward Schillebeeckx, a twentieth-century Catholic theologian, as well as on theological approaches to issues ranging from feminism to climate change. She is currently finishing the manuscript for her first book, Suspended Nature: Theology, Ecology, and Creaturely Politics.
- Ph.D. - Fordham University, Theology
- M.T.S. - University of Notre Dame, Theology
- B.A. - University of Virginia, Religious Studies
听 - Exploring Catholicism
- Catholicism and Social Justice
- Capstone Ethics
- Jesus the Christ
- Liberation, Religion, and Society
- Religion and Environment
- Systematic theology
- Ecotheology/environmental humanities
- Political theology
- Critical theory
- Feminism and gender studies
- American Academy of Religion
- Catholic Theological Society of America
- Suspended Nature: Theology, Ecology, and Creaturely Politics, Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx, London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark (under contract).
- 鈥淥n Providence, Suffering, and Creation Faith: Perspectives from 鈥楢nthropocene鈥 Aporias.鈥 In Making Room for the Story to Continue?, ed. Ernst M. Conradie and Upolu Luma Vaai. An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the 鈥楢nthropocene,鈥 vol. 4. Eugene, OR/Capetown: Wipf and Stock/AOSIS (under contract; anticipated 2024).听
- 鈥淯nnatural Futures and Hope for Our Common Home.鈥 Political Theology Network, Catholic Re-Visions blog. October 2023.听
- Introduction to 鈥淧art IV: Theology of Culture.鈥 In T & T Clark Reader in Edward Schillebeeckx, ed. Stephan van Erp and Daniel Minch. London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2023.听
- 鈥淒angerous Forecasts for a Climate of Justice: Far-Right Environmentalisms and a Planet on Fire.鈥 In Doing Climate Justice: Theological Perspectives, ed. Jan Niklas Collet et al. Paderborn: Brill Sch枚ningh, 2022.
- 鈥淨ueer Ecologies and Apocalyptic Thinking.鈥 In The Environmental Apocalypse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Jakub Kowalewski, Routledge Environmental Humanities. London: Routledge, 2022.听
- 鈥淧andemic Perspectives on Nature, Gender, and Human Ecology,鈥 College Theology听Society, Annual Convention, June 3-6, 2021.听
- 鈥淐reation Faith and the Politics of Nature: Reading Schillebeeckx in an Ecological Age.鈥 In T & T Clark Handbook of Edward Schillebeeckx, ed. Stephan van Erp and Daniel Minch. London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2019.
- 鈥淔eminist Theology, #MeToo, and Critical Unrest: Against Identitarian Temptations with Adorno鈥檚 Philosophy of Nonidentity,鈥 Louvain Studies 42 no. 3, 2019, p. 241-263.
- 鈥淣ature, Creature, Kin: Laudato Si鈥 and Political Theology in the Capitalocene鈥 (paper); 鈥淒iscernment and Doing Justice鈥 (invited panelist), Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology, KU Leuven, October 23-26, 2019.听
- 鈥溾楾o Become Again What We Never Were鈥: Irenaeus and Schillebeeckx on the Transformations of Finitude,鈥 Catholic Theological Society of America, Annual Convention, June 6-9, 2019. 听
- 鈥淭he Diversity of Creaturely Life,鈥 America magazine. Online: June 18, 2015; print excerpt: vol. 215 no. 2, in 鈥淧raised Be Creation.鈥 听
- 鈥淭o Desire God and Nature: Michel de Certeau鈥檚 Promise for a Theo-Ecological Subjectivity,鈥 College Theology Society, Annual Convention, May 28-30, 2015.
- 鈥淏earing the Weight of Salvation: A Liberative Christology in the Face of Climate Change,鈥 Climate Change and the Common Good, University of Notre Dame, April 8-10, 2013. (Invited)
As Director of the William C. Sennett Institute for Mercy and Catholic Studies, Dr. Pyne provides the 老司机福利社 and Erie Community with a Catholic Studies Lecture Series held each fall. Here Dr. Pyne is pictured with the 2022 speaker, Dr. Andrew Prevot. Dr. Pyne also oversees the Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, archive and the bi-annual Chittister Conversations. In 2022, Sister Joan was 鈥淚n Conversation鈥 with Dr. Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland.
